Harlem Library

Don’t miss the visit from bestselling author Jamie Ford on September 9! A meet and greet with a taco bar served by The Book Club will be held from 6:00-7:00 P.M. with Ford’s presentation at 7:00 P.M. His novels include “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” “Songs of Willow Frost,” and “Love and Other Consolation Prizes.” These books will be available for purchase and signing and there will be photo opportunities with the author. Ford will be presenting at Blaine Co. Library in Chinook Sept. 10 and at Havre-Hill Co. Library Sept. 11. See the complete article elsewhere in the paper.

The library is now open five more hours per week. The new hours of operation are: Mondays 11 A.M. – 7 P.M., Tuesdays and Fridays 9 A.M. – 2 P.M., Wednesdays and Thursdays 12 P.M. – 6 P.M.

Did you know we have two engaging books clubs at the library? The Book Club, a books discussion group for adults, meets in person on Mondays at 4 P.M. The new selection “Me for You” by Lolly Winston may be picked up this week. The first discussion will be held September 9. You may join the online book club on our Facebook page. “Educated” by Tara Westover is the title to read this month and the first set of questions will be posted September 9.

Our fall programming kicks off this week. The Book Club meets on Mondays at 4 P.M. Storytime for littles ones ages 0-5 meets Tuesday mornings at 10 A.M. Elementary students are invited to join the After School Squad on Wednesdays at 3:30 P.M. LEGO Club for all ages meets Thursdays at 4:30. All programs are free and preschool children must be accompanied by an adult.

“Patsy” is a new novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn. After years Patsy finally leaves her poor Jamaican town to immigrate to New York, leaving her five-year-old daughter, Tru, behind. She is hoping for a new start where she can love whomever she chooses. But Patsy soon learns America is not what she imagined. To survive as an undocumented immigrant she must work as a bathroom attendant and nanny. Meanwhile Tru builds a relationship with her father while trying to understand her mother’s abandonment.

Adrian McKinty has written “The Chain.” After Rachel Klein drops her daughter, Kylie, at the bus stop she receives a phone call from an unknown number. The woman informs Rachel she has Kylie bound and gagged. The only way to get Kylie back is to pay a ransom- Rachel must kidnap another child.

“Heartland” is a memoir by Sarah Smarsh. Born a fifth-generation Kansas wheat farmer and the daughter of a teen mother, Smarsh grew up in a family of laborers trapped in a cycle of poverty. In this work she gives readers a “unique, essential look into the lives of poor and working-class Americans living in the middle of our country.”

Amanda Skenandore is the author of “Between Earth and Sky.” Alma Mitchel is taken back to her past when she reads a newspaper headline in 1906. A federal agent is dead and the suspect is Harry Muskrat, or Asku, as Alma knew him. He was the most promising student at the boarding school run by her father where Alma was the only white student.

Bestselling author David Baldacci’s new novel is “One Good Deed.” Readers will meet Archer, a former WWII soldier, just out of prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Sent to Poca City on parole he soon learns this small town is complicated and dangerous.

“The Swan Keeper” is by Montana author Milana Marsenich. This historical, coming-of-age novel is set in 1920s Montana. Eleven-year-old Lilly and her family visit Cattail Marsh to see the newly hatched trumpeter swan cygnets. Dean Drake shows up and kills her father, injures her mother and slaughters the cygnets. When the sheriff, her sister, and best friend don’t believe her story Lilly alone must bring Drake to justice.

The Book Challenge for September is to read a book co-written by two authors.

The Friends of the Library Executive Board meets September 11, 10 A.M.

Thanks to everyone who shared their Harlem High memorabilia for display at the library during the reunion.